Bad Day To Be Sony

Not only is Sony no longer selling the RootKit CDs, Arend writes "According to a USAToday article, Sony is to pull their controversial rootkit CDs from store shelves." A nice gesture, but a little late. bos writes "Sony's DRM rootkit has been found by Dan Kaminsky to have infected at least half a million networks, according to an article by Quinn Norton for Wired News. Dan has even put together some pretty pictures of the breadth of the infection." With so many people infected, it's unfortunate that wiredog writes "From The Washington Post comes the news that serious security flaws have been found in the software that Sony is distributing to users who want to remove the Sony rootkit. The article says: 'Because of the way the tool is configured ... it allows any Web page that the user subsequently visits to download, install and run any code that it likes.'" Oops. Even Microsoft is getting into the act. ares284 writes "Microsoft said it would remove controversial copy-protection software that CDs from music publisher Sony BMG install on personal computers, deeming it a security risk to PCs running on Windows."

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Re:How to boycott?

[Anonymous Coward]

I know, -5 offtopic... But

I could care less if other people want to support Sony artists or Sony products.

You're trying to say one of two things.

1) It matters to you if other people want to support Sony.

OR

2) It doesn't matter to you if other people want to support Sony.

If you're trying to say #2, that it doesn't matter, then you mean that you couldn't care less. Meaning you care so little that it is impossible for you to care less than you do now. To say you could care less means that you do care, because it is possible to care less.

I think you were trying to say #2, so I thought I'd point out the flawed logic of your "could care less" statement.

Sorry, one of my pet peeves. Here's to correcting the worlds grammar one person at a time.